So, this is how they spend our money, photographing 160 billion pieces of mail per year!

"Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images."

"Law enforcement officials need warrants to open the mail, although President George W. Bush asserted in a signing statement in 2007 that the federal government had the authority to open mail without warrants in emergencies or in foreign intelligence cases."

No I don't have a link but I know that virtually the entire city of Wurzburg has been shut down. They are not permitting Emails. We need to find out what was contained within Snowden's files that was so vital that government has chosen to label him a traitor. I suspect they may reveal a darker side of this administration that they do not wish Americans to see.